Plugins & Themes

Hybrid 0.7 beta release

Note that this is a beta release, which means it should not be used on a live site. Use it in a test environment only.

It’s been a long while since that last major update of the Hybrid theme. It feels a little too long, but we’ve had a good run with version 0.6.

It’s time for an update. Version 0.7 is bringing a lot of new features to the table.

So, I need some help testing how well this version works.

How do I help?

If you want to get involved in the testing process, you need to have a test installation of WordPress 2.9 (trunk) set up either on your computer or as a subdirectory of your main site. It will not work properly on older versions of WordPress.

You’d install it just like you always install (in your /themes directory).

The goal is to let me know all problems you run into. We want to get rid of all the bugs before the official release.

What specific things need testing?

Well, everything. Really.

The biggest thing I’m looking for from you all is how well this new version works with your child themes. Does it break something? I’ve tried hard to make sure nothing like this happens, but it’s a possibility. So, I want to make sure that when version 0.7 is released, no one’s child theme is broken.

I’ll handle all the code stuff, much of which is still being updated. But, if you’re a developer and like browsing the theme code, feel free to point out any bugs you come across.

Test version 0.7

Remember to only use this on a test installation running WordPress 2.9/trunk.

in my functions.php – although removing it didn’t seem to matter. Also – the breadcrumbs appear on my home/front page in the new version, but not in the old one. I checked and they’re not being hidden with css or anything in the old version, and I didn’t see anything adding or removing them in my functions.php.

2) (Like David) I also can’t get to:

/wp-admin/themes.php?page=theme-settings

I noticed in 0.6.2 the link is for:

/wp-admin/themes.php?page=theme-settings.php

I tried going to the latter link in 0.7 but get the same error:

“Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.”

3) get_the_image size is wrong for some items. This is because .single is no longer part of the body class. I could either add this back into my body tags, or adopt singular. Think I’ll do the latter.

That is it for now. Let me know if you’d like me to expand on anything else.

I can see that others have it working and I don’t. The only thing I think I have different from others is likely to be that my testing blog is in a different directory than the wordpress install. (by moving index.php and .htaccess like described in wordpress)

The 2.9 install seems to be working fine, but I’ll check on their forums too.

I like that you all are participating here in the beta testing, but if you’re going to post code, I encourage you to read Writing Code In WordPress. It’ll be something useful to learn anyway, especially since we’re all using WordPress.

I am starting a new project and as ususal tempted to use Hybrid. Since this is a from scratch website, I would like to try out WordPress 2.9 live on this site with hybrid 0.7.

My worry is that, even though the child themes are forward looking, does any identifiers will change/removed causing it to break the theme? Or i can confidently style my child themes and not worry of parent hybrid shifting from 0.6 based on wordpress 2.8.6 to hybrid 0.7 based on wordpress 2.9.

Appreciate your effort to keep development at such a pace. Many thanks.

I tried it out on my local MAMP installation of WordPress 2.9 final (before that I used 2.8.6 with Hybrid 0.6.2) and 0.7 beta 2 only shows an empty page for anything above the top level for me (it will show the home page). I used the Hybrid 0.7 beta 2 downloaded from the site with no changes. I also tried disabling all plugins, but that didn’t make a difference.

The WordPress default theme will show the category page and the single post so it must be something related to Hybrid 0.7. I did have some stuff in the Hybrid Hooks plugin that seems to be gone, but since the plugin is now disabled it should not have any effect.

The only thing being shown on the category or single post page is the html and head tags, the title and body tags are loaded, but immediately escaped (title/ and body/).